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                                                                      		No 5.             VERONA  SCALA MONUMENTS
                                                                      
                                                                      		on the other side given at fig 2 and the ornament at the
                                                                      top of the level large, fig 3.  Fig 4 is an example of
                                                                      balcony foliation;  thetracery bars are a connected - b cut
                                                                      Ba[l]lconies		open, q which was first balcony, and traceried or shafted
                                                                      passing into balustraded.  No 5 contains details of the
                                                                      most beautiful of the three Scala tombs; the simplest of
                                                                      the two detached shrines:  I got into its upper story to-
                                                                      day:  Tuesday Nov 6th and past a most happy forenoon in
                                                                      examining it:  the following measures are of its upper
                                                                      story only:  the lower I have not yet examined:  but
                                                                      it is a beautiful case of simple superposition:  the eye
                                                                      being hardly drawn to its lower story at all.
                                                                      		     Its plan is a parallelogram of nearly 8 to 9:  From
                                                                      shaft to shaft at the base of the two pillars of the
                                                                      widest arch is 9 ft 2 in. and of the narrower arch, 8 ft
                                                                      and ½ an inch.  The widest arches are those which front
                                                                      the palace and chapel.  Four shafts support the canopy;
                                                                      and there, singularly for Gothic workof the period, have
                                                                      similar capitals[%],  most beautiful and simple in their
                                                                      distant effect and proportion;  nothing can be more
                                                                      lovely than the way the light touches the central cross and
                                                                      branching tree, where seen at the proper distances:  i.e.
                                                                      from ground below.  Seen close fig 1 they are perhaps
                                                                      a little insipid and wanting in edge and sparkle;
                                                                      though perfectly graceful, sceintific and finished;  their
                                                                      scrolls m[r]uc[s]h in plan, but most delicately cut.

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